NUM 1182
Title: Música Portuguesa Para Um Quarteto (Portuguese Music for a Quartet)
Artists: Quarteto Lopes-Graça
Composers: António Victorino D’Almeida, Fernando Lopes-Graça
The members of this Quartet, formed at the School of Music of the National Conservatory (Lisbon – Portugal), are musicians possessing outstanding solo and chamber careers who are also teachers at that institution. This project intends to bestow on its Conservatory, as happens at many of its fellow schools around the world, a group of reference in the area of string performance capable of developing permanent teaching activity (quartet master-classes) as well as promoting the school, both in Portugal and abroad.
The ensemble performed in the most recent editions of the “La Folle Journée” Festival at the Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon, as well as in the Festival “In search of a Lost Concert House”, in Lisbon, and in many other major venues, including anniversary commemorations for Lopes Graça and Mozart.
It devotes special attention to repertoire by contemporary Portuguese composers, having given several world premieres of such works. One important example, a concert given last December in Andorra on the theme of “the Portuguese musical tradition of the 20th century,” deserves particular mention.
Its first CD includes major works by Lopes-Graça and Antonio Victorino d’Almeida.
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